The latest China quality architecture to be causing a stir is the unashamed uniformity of a vast new Hainan suburb, combining both the charms of suburban sprawl and large-scale housing projects.

On the positive side, the “villas” are presumably a major improvement over the village shacks they are intended to replace, assuming they stay up and do not derive most of their value from a property bubble:

At the other end of the scale of uniqueness versus uniformity, this inexplicable and rather precarious looking structure has also been arousing comment of late – it can only be hoped it is built to withstand the “magnitude 0” quakes which cause the collapse of so many Chinese buildings:

Laugh…
You just know what can be proved to you.
Those farmers were lived in old, wooden houses like this kind：http://www.gog.com.cn/pic/0/10/53/47/10534703_937744.jpg

Now, they change those house and its land to the buildings show in the news above, with furniture preplaced. They can also get other room frontage on streets, which can be open for small shop or just loan it.

All in all, this isn’t really too different from american suburbs. A lot closer together, sure, but go around and see how many houses in a common development are similar to each other if not all the same.

And that’s just the single-family units.

Let’s not get into the rows and rows of townhomes that’re bunched next to each other.

Actually I drive past Mississauga every day and see rows of identical houses just like this, although not sprawling as far as the eye can see. It’s not just limited to China, housing companies just want to cut costs in real estate development. I wouldn’t be surprised that in 10 years well be seeing gigantic hab blocks similar to ant-hills. I can only hope that they incorporate some gothic architecture into it so that we can move even closer to the world envisioned in a Philip K Dick novel.

Oh god, that game is the love of my life. I remember building tons of stables side by side and spawning legions of elephants. In AoE II, the same was done with siege workshops and rapenagers in DM games.

It looks just like the american army base I visited in Germany, every apartment block was completely identical. I remember having to count the number of houses I passed so I wouldn’t get lost going to the shops.

A man entered to this peaceful suburb at about 20:00 yesterday evening, and entered an apartment. He then preceded to rape several women inside. After he was captured and questioned by authorities. His defense to the charges; The assailant claimed that he thought he was drunk and went home and had sex with his wife several times. We are now waiting to see how long it takes for the charges to be dropped.

I’m not really bothered by the fact that every house looks the same, but the fact that they made the street too narrow to park a car is a serious crime. Especially when you consider the growing rate of Chinese automotive sales.

That said, China should start looking at housing in America. I think they could learn a lot from looking at older row homes & development communities. Row homes were never fancy either, but the costs of joined housing structures should certianly be better than what those clowns came up with.

Typical in US? No. But has it happened before? Definitely. This kind of copy pasta can be seen here in the UK. Terraced houses lined up on a straight street uniformerly. We still get them now and again.

Simple search of google isn’t that hard. But y’know…ripping on another is more fun than picking out our own flaws looking at some commenters here.

Not your typical modern American suburb, but the first thing I thought when I saw some pictures was our 1950’s suburbs. Take a trip to San Francisco, you guys. I am disturbed whenever I see those rolling hills of identical, pastel colored dwellings off of Highway 280.

GM products are big in China, as are german luxury vehicles; however most people still have and use electric bikes for getting around. The only place that I can think of where they’re not common is Shenzhen (and that’s because they’ve been banned there). Other than that you still see bikes everywhere.

nigga u dumb. China is importing GM cars&trucks at a staggering rate, to the point that they’ve become China’s number one import. and prices of pump gas are on the rise globally because of that. Electric bikes. TFF

True it does and the China building bubble will burst one of these days and it’ll be spectacular.
Hopefully the people will still know how to make a living like they did two decades ago by farming and stuff for them selves when it happens and the land will still be arable.

I live in china and I can say that many farmers now became owners of a 8 store bulding with small apartments that goverment exchange for their soils to build up roads and other stuff, maybe like that on the picture… must propably it’s a must for the peasant to yield the goverment authority, otherwise they can just take the peasant down. I start to realize that the situation for many ppl of the countryside is not that bad as many think. But the goverment is messing a lot doing prospections and building up crazy new areas all around.

Naw, it’s more like people kept on getting loans for houses they can barely afford the monthly payment. And when the prices started to go down to where the mortgage was more than the value of the house, most people just walked out and stopped paying. >.>

Ironic isn’t it? The yellow niggas pouring into the West just as the White niggas poured into the rest of the world couple hundred years ago while raping, killing, enslaving, stealing while forcing religion and drugs upon a myriad of cultures for greed.

Seriously…White powah people and racists are one of the most hypocritical and ignorant fools out there. I’m White myself.

Who can be so stupid and come up with the idea to build all buildings exactly the same one after the other?

But then, looking at the bridge with the building on top of it, says it all: This has been designed by a complete retard who just doesn’t give a shit.

A little large-scale thinking and planing goes a long way. Just a little more varied placement of those buildings with some space, grass and trees could have actually make it look somewhat decent but like that it just looks like a giant antfarm that will be inhabited my mindless little identical drones.

@PirateKing
Issuing stereotypes and derogatory statements to solely target a nationality is a kin to being racist. As other pointed out, tract housing is hardly isolated to China but still practiced globally. Yet specifically when China participates in tract housing suddenly it is an outrage, “designed by a complete retard” housing to be filled by Chinese who “will be inhabited them like “ mindless little identical drones.” Then muse it would explode and how it’s all fitting for China.

Clearly hostility is not directed at the housing but China/Chinese. Just because you have friends whos Chinese doesnt really recant a racist comment said. Even KKK members who are secretly descendants of African American, can be just as hateful.

Don’t you see the parallels to the Foxconn factories where hundredthousands of people are slaving away like drones doing repetitive mindless tasks so some idiots can drool over their iphone and whatnot?

If these kinds of things are not being critisized then they will never change.

Issuing stereotypes and derogatory statements to solely target a nationality is a kin to being racist. As other pointed out, tract housing is hardly isolated to China but still practiced globally. Yet specifically when China participates in tract housing suddenly it is an outrage, “designed by a complete retard” housing to be filled by Chinese who “will be inhabited them like “ mindless little identical drones.” Then muse it would explode and how it’s all fitting for China. Clearly hostility is not directed at the housing but China/Chinese.

Just because you have friends whos Chinese doesnt really recant a racist comment said. Even KKK members who are secretly descendants of African American, can be just as hateful.

1. Dude, I spend alot of time in China with 3 chinese friends running an import/export business. And when I say that something in a country is crap then that does not make me racist. Especially when I’m half asian myself (no I won’t tell you from where), so fuck you.

2. No its not limited to china, but doing it that repetitive and with those numbers is another story entirely. The buildings don’t look *that* cheap so its even more stupid to devalue them by this.

3. It still sucks, one of my (yes) chinese friends worked at foxconn in Shenzhen and the things he described to me are unbelievable. But since you don’t know what you’re talking about why don’t you just stfu :-).

It seems the Chinese are selling off their culture,environment,and future for some quick money today.
This apartment complex will be a crime ridden cesspool 20 years from now if it doesn’t burn or fall down first.